Transformation Management: Towards the Integral Enterprise
- 7h 38m
- Alexander Schieffer, Ronnie Lessem
- Ashgate Publishing
- 2009
The concept of transformation has long been known to the sciences and has been around in the popular vocabulary for several decades. Because, though, it has never been fully developed as a managed process and applied to our organizations, the way in which we have been trying to deal with the complex issues we face today is looking increasingly inadequate.
Transformation management, argue the authors of this inspirational book, now provides the opportunity for the application of the first significant world-wide innovation in the way we manage since Drucker put management itself on the map in the 1950s. In a book that draws on seminal theses and practical examples from the four corners of the world, Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer provide leaders, students of leadership, managers and change agents with a trans-culturally tested, integrated approach to leadership and management.
Only through a redefinition of what leadership, management and entrepreneurship amount to, say the authors, can organizations be transformed into sustainable enterprises capable of dealing with the burning issues of our time. Leaders are coming to realise that it is no longer possible for organizations to operate in any sort of isolation from the society and the wider world in which they exist, but paying lip service to notions of either social responsibility or globality is not good enough. From this indispensable book, those whose enterprises are to have any hope of becoming authentically socially responsible or authentically global will learn to understand and activate the process that dynamically links any organization with the society in which it is embedded and that links the local with the global.
The practice of transformation management is about creating real value... for organizations, people, and society. This book, the first in a new Transformation and Innovation Series, makes that practice possible.
About the Authors
Professor Ronnie Lessem is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics. He has been an adjunct professor at IMD, Lausanne and is now Director of the Trans-cultural Centre and programmes at the University of Buckingham in the UK. Ronnie Lessem has also been the managing director of a clothing business in South Africa and he has acted as a consultant and adviser on organisational learning, knowledge creation and cross-cultural management to international companies such as the Anglian Water Group in the UK. He has written over twenty books on subjects including organisational development, change and transformation.
Dr. Alexander Schieffer studied economics, business administration, law and social sciences at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. He also gained a Doctorate in Leadership at St Gallen and he now lectures there and at CIDA in South Africa on interdisciplinary problem solving. Dr Schieffer is a member of the Society for Organisational Learning and the World Business Academy. He has published a variety of articles and books in the last ten years. The authors have established the TRANS4M Four World Laboratory of Social and Economic Transformation, a research and education based organisation committed to an approach to social innovation which acknowledges the importance of the cultural context.
In this Book
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Prologue—Time for Transformation!
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Management and Transformation—From Independent Business towards the Integral Enterprise
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The Four Fundamentals of Transformation Management—From an Independent to an Interdependent Fourfold Perspective
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Nature and Transformation—Releasing GENE-ius
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Strategic Renewal—From Economic to Ecological
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Self, Organizational and Societal Renewal—The journey of Transformation
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Culture and Transformation—Corporate Culture to Transformational Topography
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Cultural Dynamics—Beyond Organizational Development
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Transcultural Learning and Co-creation—From Local identity to Global Integrity
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Science and Transformation—Expanding the Knowledge Base of the Enterprise
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Research to Innovation—Fundamental Research to Transformative Action
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Management and Transformation—From the Evolution of Marketing to the Evolution of Finance
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Transforming Marketing into Community Building—From Reciprocity and Exchange to Workplace Democracy
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Transforming Human Resources into Conscious Evolution—From Individual Consciousness to Self-Organizational-Societal Co-Evolution
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Transforming Operations into Knowledge Creation—From Open Society to Open Source
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Transforming Finance into Sustainable Development—From Life Instinct to Self-Organization
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Enterprise and Transformation—Integral Theory and Practice
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Epilogue—Towards the Integral Enterprise and Society
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TRANS4M Geneva—A Four World Laboratory for Social and Economic Transformation
